Friday, October 19, 2012

"When money's tight and hard to get and your horse is also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt a pint of plain is your only man" Flann O'Brien, Irish Literary Genius

Mitt Romney, unlike Richard M. Nixon, William J. Clinton and Barack H. Obama has no relatives in Dear Old Donegal.

That can't be bad. Instead of streaching Ancestry Dot Com. to breaking point in search of some relatives who may be sons and daughters of Dear Old Erin's Isle, we Celts ,to use David Lloyd George's sobriquette, can vote rest assured that Willard Mitt Romney is not related to any Knackers, Jackeens, BIFFOS, Corner Motts, Pikees, Bosthoons, Culchies, Layabouts, Bowzies, or IRA hangers-on.

A Romney Presidency might just be free of a trip to the Snakeless Shores and the requisite hoisting of pints and proud platitudes with Skinless Murphy, Baldy Knackers Quinn, Bug Bugger Hynes, Jackee-Joe Jackson, Paddy the Bat, Larry the Langer and Blind Oscar.

While Romney’s documented ancestry does not quite reach the heights of the family legend, which claimed that they are descendants of the fourth-century dragon slayer, St. George (the patron saint of England), it is still an impressive one, with some of the most celebrated thinkers (maternal great-grandfather, Parley Parker Pratt, was one of the chief literary defenders of Mormonism), famed fighters (Carl Heinrich Wilcken, a member of the Prussian army, and later, Utah’s militia) and natural leaders (Miles Romney, who founded and administered the Mormon sanctuary in Mexico in the 19th century) of post-Independence America.

The family can trace their lineage to modern England, Scotland and Germany. Miles Park Romney, Mitt’s great-great grandfather (paternal), hails from Lancashire, England, while on the maternal side, Archibald Newell Hill was a resident of Renfrew, Scotland. His great-great grandfather, the legendary Prussian soldier, Carl Heinrich Wilcken, was a native of Holstein, Germany.

Romney's family tree is rife with polygamists on the paternal side, though there is no indication of polygamy on the maternal side of his family. According to a research by The Salt Lake Tribune, Romney's ancestry harbors six polygamous men with forty-one wives. Romney, however, is a confirmed monogamist and polygamy has been absent in his family background for more than two generations.

Note: The full name of Mr. Carl Heinrich Wilcken was provided by Mr. Ulrich Oesterle from Hesse, Germany.

Prussians and Scots and Brits for blood; it is time for a Change I Hope!

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